Read full poem →Sex to sweet sex with lips and limbs is wed,
Turning the fruitful feud of hers and his
To the waste wedlock of a sterile kiss;
Dictionary Entry
A state of long-standing mutual hostility.
In a Sentence
“You couldn't call it a feud exactly, but there had always been a chill between Phil Mickelson and Tiger Woods.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “feud”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Our former faults did we confess,
Our ancient feud was more than heal’d,
And, with the woman’s eagerness
Read full poem →The 'Infinite.' Word horrible! at feud
With life, and the braced mood
Read full poem →Dark and naked, on the hill.
Had there been ever any feud
'Twixt earth and sky, a mighty will
Read full poem →Strange pangs would flash along Childe Harold's brow,[z]
As if the Memory of some deadly feud
Or disappointed passion lurked below:
Read full poem →In changing moon and tidal wave
Glows the feud of Want and Have.
Gauge of more and less through space,
Read full poem →In changing moon and tidal wave
Glows the feud of Want and Have.
Gauge of more and less through space,
Read full poem →This Grendel feud became known at home
To Hygelac’s warrior, brave among the Geats:
Read full poem →Lay that sword-hatred ready to be roused
In the deadly feud of father and son-in-law).
But the outcast spirit haunting darkness
Read full poem →That time with Hrothgar, waging his enmity,
His sin-forced feud for many seasons,
His seasonless strife; what peace would he have